Barbara Meter Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a...

A man and a woman converse wordlessly. An essential film dialogue. The accompanying sound was created by playing a chord from a Mahler symphony...

In her recent film Up to the Sky and Much Much More, Meter uses letters sent to her by her father during World War II to provide the film's...

Photos and film footage are edited, damaged, scratched, and painted. The original images are only vaguely recognizable, as if they are already part...

A Young man is interested in the girl next door, but also discovers that he is not insensitive to a boy, with whom he has dress-up parties in the...

A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important role: visible grain, flashes of colour,...

After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film. The camera observes a...

A rhythmical montage made from old photographs and films in which past and present merge.

Barbara Meter's first experimental film. From outside, the handheld camera surreptitiously peers at life in the living rooms of nocturnal Amsterdam....

Often the images are held for awhile and then left to themselves - only to fade out just as they begin to move. For me this enhances the feeling of...

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

Part of the Zuiver Film collection.

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and...

A very impressive film is Barbara Meter's 'Distance to Nearby.' The film is a dramatic reconstruction of memory. The memory of the alienation and...